Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-11-04
NEWS SUMMARY.

Black for state attorney.
seth Bemis one OF New Eugland's best
known manufacturers, is dead.
Stanton, Va, had u heavy snow storm
October 26.
st. Louis wants the national republican
convention
Gold has been discovered about A. miles
north of Grand Marias, Cook county, Mimi
Three men were killed at Ellenwo Cd
Dakota, the other day by the explosion of
= threshing machine boiler.
Apaches in Arizona are running OF
stock belonging TO set tiers and otherwise
making them considerable trouble.
The state department at Washington is
draped In mourning a. mark OF respect
to the memory of the late T.. b. Wash
burne.
Charles L. Phillips president of the de
funct Columbian bank of Philadelphia,
has joined the American contingent in
Canada.
Secretary Bayard will soon marry Miss
Markoe, a lady about 80 years DID, who
has for many years held "a clerkship in the
state department.
William Reed OF Pittsburg, the most ex-
ed States, was drowned at Somers Point,
y. j., the other day.
Saw, shingle and planning mill of c. G.
LOOMS of Little Rock. Ark, were de
stroyed by fire the other day, and about
10000 worth Of lumber burned
Warner Milier's new pulp and paper mill
at Corinth, n. y, coll apsed the other day,
John Mallory was killed, and three other
persons were buried under the debris.
A battery of six boilers in the Lawrence
iron works Mt Ironton. Ohio, exploded the
other morning. -Four men were instantly
killed and % Others were terribly injured.
Mrs Amelia ) Quinton has been elected
president Of the Woman's National Indian
association, in the stead of Mrs Mary
Lowe Dickinson, resigned on account of
i'll health
The 81, 0O0 600 suit against Jay Gould and
Russell sage, as trustees of the Kansas
Pacific railroad securities, brought by
Stopp a Reno Of Amsterdam, has been
dis, ontinued.
Tie united labor party Of Chicago has
indorsed the nomination of Joseph +.
Gary for judge Of the supreme court, and
l.. h. Boyers for states attorney. II was
Judge Gary who sentenced the anarchists.
Mrs. Jules Arnoux of New Castle, Penn,
sets up the claim that she is a daughter of
Jean Girard, youngest brother of stephen
Girard, and asserts $500 is due her and
five other heirs by Girard college in Phila-
delphia.
Henry Martin Jackson, cashier of the
United States sub-treasury in New York,
has fed TO Canada. His account shows
deficiency Of $1,000 Jackson is - years
old and married. His aged father is sec
rotary Of the American Bibe society.
Furious winds did great damage to yes
sells on the lakes on the 23d ana oath OF
October The barge Oriental sunk near
Port Dalhousie, and her crew Of five men
are supposed To have persisted. The Zach
Chandler went down on the 23d. but her
crew was rescued, after a night OF great
peril. IL IS thought that the barges Dol
phin and Morris are also lost
An effort is 10 be IN lde O unite the coal
miners throughout toe entire country in
10 one national organization. There are
at present about 20OOJO coal miners in the
country or this number $1,000 are mem.
Der, of the knights Of labor and 1900 are
in the federation. The remainder arc un-
organized and every effort viii be made
TO bring them all into the fold.
An attorney at Marblehead, Mass, in
forms K. c. Clair of Mllhali Pa, that
Thomas II. Henson OF Marblehead, who
died recently at that place, has left his
property, said TO be worth SIS, 0O0to Clair,
out of gratitude TO the latter for having
saved his life during the civil war Both
were soldiers and Henson, who was
wounded at Hatchus Run, Va, was assist
ed off the field by Clair.
The state of Indiana has brought suit
against Kentucky for the possession OF
Green Island, situated IN the Ohio river
at the mouth Of Green river just above
Evansville, Ind During low water mark
the island is connected with the mainland
of Indiana.
Apache Indian, are becoming very
troublesome throughout New Mexico.
The assistant manager Of the Rocking
Chair ranch, Texas, denies the story that
any settlers on the tract have been threat
ened with eviction.
General order No p issued from &. A. Il.
headquarters announces the following adj
ditional staff appointments: Inspector
general, Ira NJ. Hedges, Haverstraw, n.
y; assistant adjutant-general, Robert
Stratton, Minneapolis; senior abide
camp, REESE r. Henderson, Minneapolis.
The executive committee of the council
of administration will consist of w. NJ.
McClelland, Pittsburg Pa r. 4. Wilson.
Chicago; Fred c. Deitz, GAINESVILLE, O. :;
George A. Newman, Cedar Falls, la. ;
James II. Drake, ST, Paul; }. :. Clsrkson,
Des Moines; George c. Ginty, Chippewa
Falls, Wis. The pension committee will
lie composed Of George = Merrill Law
renee, Mass. Louis Wagner. Philadelphia /,
Corporal James Tanner, Brooklyn; y
Kountz, Toledo; John W. Burch, Syca-
more, Ill.
The corner stone OF the monument in
honor of Gen. Robert T.. Lee TO he erected
in Richmond, Va, was laid on the 2sth ult
Eugene Semple, Governor of Washing
ton territory, in his annual report TO the
secretary of the interior estimates the
population of the Territory at li3f69, an
increase of over ltpO in the last two